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Szymczyk studied art history at Warsaw University. In the 1990s he participated at the curatorial education of Amsterdam's art centre De Appel. In 1997 he co-founded Fundacja Galerii Foksal (Foksal Gallery Foundation) in Warsaw.[3] Since 2003 he has been the director of Kunsthalle Basel. In 2008 he was co-curator of the 5th Berlin Biennale.[4] Szymczyk, who the New York Times called a "superstar among curators" [5] was presented on November 22, 2013, as the artistic director of Documenta 14.[6]